Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
ARMY ANECDOTES.
!, nav. of Both Belligerents Tell Of
wv pattles, Bullets. Bayonets, and
Boiled Beans.
,,,.-s and Sailors Stirring Stories
'0'' a. Solid Shot and Screaming
Shells.
Our Nameless Dead.
BY BETH DAY.

>,,,e,ess Dead they lilo at rest to wait the
Pu' last last grand rally,
Pa s,,itEcrn valley;
Sortlcrn suLiac holds his torch above their
s,teM' sMiarnoiias drifting snow will not
their Giiet GUNNER.
e 'si iuew their outward semblancc.
nct the less they rest, FOR God still holds
~ ,nnn, in remembrance.
~ t1em, where they fell asleep amid the
cannon rlltia, a.,
P.' me scars Of baltic.
~.,,e,ese Dead! oh. long for them the vigil
Fu' lamps were burning.
.,,ssr.s grew sicl. with hope deferred-the
! ~ none OF their returning
.,onsard pulses, lunGuid now, break into
/ .wi.ter beating
,,,, fvlpd bIGo o! army coats loves wistful
owes is meeting
:. tuetn no sud funeral trains with solemn
|" ,,,umes ana di,ges,
ip,s,y b"rial when dny's shore receives
nirnts dusAy suracs.
!. comha I'll stiffness in the Dir the breath of
cannon scor2hes,
va hnttlc-sn,cke thelf only pail, Gods stars
~ cir funeral torches.
- Same!ess Dead what tears start up to
longing eyes unbidden,
&,i chow stle itllS pun VI yo0IS III LuNG
nna sentence hidden;
j., H. l,,lese watch; tho tireless senrch: tho
hope no answer meeting:
~ warts that broke in dumb despair-that
~ bro e. b,,: kept en- beat n:,.
M men who go: 10 meet unnoved with death
where lie may find them,
! ol,a T.r are than t ose who welt and guard
Tie camp behind them.
re weak bu. loyal, sent them forth, with duty
not debating,
n learned ia fearless agony that some may
serve Ly waiting.
~ Numeless Dead! how firm they STOOL the
Outer trenches guarding,
fsne fell the ieHuen rain OF death, where
rtced the tierca bombErtling;
,on the march, beside tho camp, where stood
the lonely picket;
e,ie the dark miasMal marsh where death
lurked III tho thicket;
hon the cot in torturiny pnin, amidst the dead
and ewing;
!, where the Cumberland went down, with all
her celors flying
mir voices swelied the victors' shout, the
sigls Of the defeated,
rc:reate1.
!, Nameless Dead! how brave they were
where death grim enSel waited.
NON the sod whose thirsty grass with human
blood Was stated.
how made poor Afric's cause their own, they
saw her children rigEted:
side tho arrays foremost lines their bivounc
Tres were lighted.
lev slowly marched. with arms reversed, to
unified drumbeats solemn,
left their footprints side by side with those
that led the column.
be Blue and Gray. how calm they sleep!
while through the sunny weather
me Nature sends hor wilding vines to bind
their graves together.
10 rhythmic tread OF marching hosts down
time 5 dim halls is fading;
..enor Of the lie is hushed. the bass Of can
nGnading.
III tsde,h not the deeds they did on fields OF
martial glory;
ey shiuo in golden letters yet in many q
song and story.
need to carve the name he bore above zach
brave defender,
bsGoi Knows whore no wrote them down in
loyal heurts and tender.
race in thought above each grave that
holds them in its keeping:
zEnown to man, but known to God, what
hero here is sleeping"